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Don’t Let Zombie Zoom Links Drag You Down

October 2, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, charan akiri, Latest Warnings, LinkedIn, The Coming Storm, zoom, zoom personal meeting id

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:43:34 +0000

Many organizations — including quite a few Fortune 500 firms — have exposed web links that allow anyone to initiate a Zoom video conference meeting as a valid employee. These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks.

MalwareBytes Security

A firsthand perspective on the recent LinkedIn account takeover campaign

September 1, 2023 admin contacts, LinkedIn, news, sessions

Categories: News

Tags: LinkedIn

Tags: sessions

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It started with a password reset email in the middle of the night.

MalwareBytes Security

Attackers demand ransoms for stolen LinkedIn accounts

August 18, 2023 admin brute force, credential stuffing, LinkedIn, mfa, news, rambler.ru

Categories: News

Tags: LinkedIn

Tags: rambler.ru

Tags: MFA

Tags: brute-force

Tags: credential stuffing

LinkedIn support channels are being swamped by users that have been locked out of their accounts.

Independent Krebs

Teach a Man to Phish and He’s Set for Life

August 4, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, check point software, Latest Warnings, LinkedIn, microsoft, Microsoft 365, phishing, right to left override, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2023 13:49:15 +0000

One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. Like attaching a phishing email to a traditional, clean email message, or leveraging link redirects on LinkedIn, or abusing an encoding method that makes it easy to disguise booby-trapped Microsoft Windows files as relatively harmless documents.

Independent Krebs

Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

June 29, 2023 admin arkady bukh, dmitry volkov, dropbox, facct, fight against cybercrime technologies, formspring, Group-IB, ilya sachkov, lamarez, LinkedIn, Ne'er-Do-Well News, oleg tolstikh, oleksandr vitalyevich ieremenko, U.S. Secret Service, u.s. securities & exchange commission, yevgeniy nikulin, zl0m

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:30:08 +0000

Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States.

Kaspersky Security